Lobbying in Olympia
IIABW is renowned for its effectiveness in advocating on behalf of independent agents and brokers in the state legislature and with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. IIABW’s lobbyist, Bill Stauffacher, works with IIABW members to advocate on issues impacting insurance agents/brokers, the over all industry and our customers.
Recent issues:
Wildfire Mitigation Committee article
Political Action Committee
IIABWs state political action committee, Big I Pac, pools contributions from member agencies (corporate contributions are accepted) and individuals annually and gives those dollars to elected officials and candidates who advance IIABW core principles on agent-specific, insurance industry and general business issues. Simply put, a PAC contribution is the equivalent of purchasing political insurance. Contributions do not buy solutions to legislative debates, but they do allow the Big I significant ‘face time’ with very busy elected officials to give us an opportunity to make our case.
Personal AND corporate contributions can be made to the Big I Pac.